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USB TAP BDM has encountered a problem. Failed to resume target process. Bad arguments passed to function.

josephclifton — Fri, 08 May 2015 20:24:55 GMT

We had a student group get the following error when trying to program the MC56F8037 eval board: "Lab7_MC56F8037_Internal_PFlash_SDM_Freescale USB TAP BDM has encountered a problem. Failed to resume target process. Bad arguments passed to function." After that error, the eval board became unusable. We tried programming after that on different PCs, barebones program, etc. and with different USB Taps. It would not accept any program and always gives the same error. We had this happen on 3 boards. I have been giving this same lab for 4 or 5 years and haven't seen anything like this. I read the post where someone had a similar issue ( https://community.freescale.com/thread/302492), but the "fix" was to restart the PC. We did that and also tried different PCs and different programs and different USB Taps. So it appears as if downloading their program onto a board rendered the board unusable. I should note that we had the Motor Control board attached. The Motor Control board still works fine. The fact that this happened for 3 different MC56F8037 eval boards when trying to program seems strange. Was wondering if the ever came up before. We are running Windows 7. I was hoping that somehow they put the microcontroller in some mode that we could do something to recover from, but I know that is a long shot. Has anyone had something similar to this happen (other than the link shown)?

Re: USB TAP BDM has encountered a problem. Failed to resume target process. Bad arguments passed to function.

johnlwinters — Fri, 08 May 2015 20:30:49 GMT

Hi Joseph,

Please try upgrading the tool you are using to program the DSC since you are using Windows 7.

Please follow the suggestions in this article:

Using the CodeWarrior TAP with the DSC

Also, please read off all the numbers on your USB TAP to make sure it is correct (the first one that did not work.).

Also, BDM is not supported by these devices.

Re: USB TAP BDM has encountered a problem. Failed to resume target process. Bad arguments passed to function.

josephclifton — Fri, 08 May 2015 23:01:14 GMT

Hi John,

We have several boards and several USB TAPs. All the rest work just fine. It just went bad for one group. The other 6 groups and the many before them was fine. I am not sure we can upgrade, since we have the University license. Unless we can get that under the University license also. What is it that the upgrade will allow us to do that the other doesn’t?

Also, please read off all the numbers on your USB TAP to make sure it is correct (the first one that did not work.).

The USB Tap works just fine. We can take another project and another board of the exact same type and it programs just fine. So we know the USP Tap is fine. It was their particular project that when programmed onto a board that caused the problems. I will send the numbers on Monday.

Also, BDM is not supported by these devices.

I am not sure what you mean by this.

Thanks

Joe

Re: USB TAP BDM has encountered a problem. Failed to resume target process. Bad arguments passed to function.

johnlwinters — Fri, 08 May 2015 23:07:50 GMT

Hi,

It is likely that the problem project reprogrammed the JTAG signals to be GPIO instead. I suggest you get help from the technical information center on how to get control of the devices. You can ignore the comment about BDM for now.

Best Regards,

John L. Winters

Senior Applications Engineer

AMR/EU MCU & MPU AE Group

Freescale Inc.

2100 Elliot Road

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Re: USB TAP BDM has encountered a problem. Failed to resume target process. Bad arguments passed to function.

josephclifton — Fri, 08 May 2015 23:17:26 GMT

Thank You!!! That is what I was hoping!

Re: USB TAP BDM has encountered a problem. Failed to resume target process. Bad arguments passed to function.

josephclifton — Sat, 09 May 2015 18:16:52 GMT

I dug around in the technical Info Center and could not find what I needed. I think that maybe they locked the flash. The data sheet: http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=56F803X&tab=Documentation_Tab&pspll=1&SelectedAsset=Documentation&ProdMetaId=PID/DC/56F803X&fromPSP=true&assetLockedForNavigation=true&componentId=2&leftNavCode=1&pageSize=25&Documentation=Documentation/00610Ksd1nd``Data Sheets&fpsp=1&linkline=Data Sheets

section 7.2 discusses this. It indicates how to get out of it, but it appears to refer to an older version of CodeWarrior. I have Eclipse-based CodeWarrior for MCU Version: 10.2.

I searched the program and the help and the web and your site for how to do something similar to what it says in 7.2.3 and can’t find anything. I also did a lot of searching to see if I could issue JTAG commands directly via Code Warrior but didn’t find anything. I also tried to see if there was a way to erase the flash from the version of Code Warrior I have and I can’t find that either.

So please let me know how I can do this (or if I can do this) using the Code Warrior version I have.

Thanks.

Re: USB TAP BDM has encountered a problem. Failed to resume target process. Bad arguments passed to function.

josephclifton — Sun, 10 May 2015 16:37:55 GMT

An update: I got an older computer, installed an earlier version of CodeWarrior. Tried what was recommended in section 7.2 of the MC56F8037 data sheet to attempt to unlock the flash. It said it succeeded in unlocking the flash, but I am sure it didn't. I am pretty sure the memory in not locked. I looked over their CodeWarrior project multiple times and can't find anything that looks suspicious. There doesn't appear to be any connection between the board and the JTAG USB tap, so perhaps the JTAG pins could be reprogrammed, but I don't see anything in the project that does that. The power LED is lit on the MC56F8037 eval board. However, the reset button doesn't appear to do anything. It as if the board is fried, but I am how sure how programming it with what appears to be an innocuous program could do that. No matter what USB Tap we use, the Transmit/Receive LED on the flashes green but the Run/Pause starts off as either Red or unlit, but stays Red no matter what commands are issued. It never goes green or orange. It is as if it is permanently paused.

Re: USB TAP BDM has encountered a problem. Failed to resume target process. Bad arguments passed to function.

johnlwinters — Sun, 10 May 2015 18:04:17 GMT

Reprogramming the reset pin as a GPIO is now the most likely cause.

This malady is easily acquired with processor expert.

If all unused pins are made GPIO it will happen. There are warnings issued in the GUI but the determined easily overcome them.

Look at the chip picture in processor expert.

Make it full size. What function is assigned to reset pin?

Or, just read the content of the docs directory.

Best Regards,

John L. Winters

Senior Applications Engineer

AMR/EU MCU & MPU AE Group

Freescale Inc.

2100 Elliot Road

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Re: USB TAP BDM has encountered a problem. Failed to resume target process. Bad arguments passed to function.

josephclifton — Mon, 11 May 2015 00:02:30 GMT

No, the reset wasn’t reprogrammed. Neither were any of the JTAG pins GPIOD0 – 3. They are all “unassigned”, just as they are in a barebones project.

If you think of something else, like me know. I have been racking my brain for several days and just can’t think of anything yet. Thanks.

Re: USB TAP BDM has encountered a problem. Failed to resume target process. Bad arguments passed to function.

johnlwinters — Mon, 11 May 2015 15:09:07 GMT

The board must be powered prior to connecting the JTAG. Also the JTAG must be removed prior to removing power from the board. The flash parameters may be erased if this is not respected. Such devices would have to be refreshed at the factory.

Best Regards,

John L. Winters

Senior Applications Engineer

AMR/EU MCU & MPU AE Group

Freescale Inc.

2100 Elliot Road

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Re: USB TAP BDM has encountered a problem. Failed to resume target process. Bad arguments passed to function.

josephclifton — Mon, 11 May 2015 15:35:31 GMT

This sounds a little strange, since it hasn’t happened before. Also, it only went bad after attempting the programming and only this year. I have had many students doing projects with this board for several years and it hadn’t happened before. That is why it makes me think that this group had something strange in their project, but I sure can’t what that would be.

Such devices would have to be refreshed at the factory

What is the cost of this?

What does it take to do it? Does it use the JTAG Connector but a special program or do you connect something special to other pins on the board?

Re: USB TAP BDM has encountered a problem. Failed to resume target process. Bad arguments passed to function.

johnlwinters — Mon, 11 May 2015 15:43:19 GMT

The flash parameters are entered at factory test .

If you can attach the project we can check it for any bad effects on the device.

Best Regards,

John L. Winters

Senior Applications Engineer

AMR/EU MCU & MPU AE Group

Freescale Inc.

2100 Elliot Road

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Re: USB TAP BDM has encountered a problem. Failed to resume target process. Bad arguments passed to function.

josephclifton — Mon, 11 May 2015 17:42:43 GMT

The flash parameters are entered at factory test

How would they be changed back on an eval board? I am assuming you wouldn’t remove the chip, right?

If you can attach the project

I have attached it as a ZIP file. So if neither email side strips it….

Thanks!

Re: USB TAP BDM has encountered a problem. Failed to resume target process. Bad arguments passed to function.

johnlwinters — Mon, 11 May 2015 18:58:22 GMT

I just noticed that your CodeWarrior, 10.2, is one of the early buggy versions.

Please upgrage to CodeWarrior 10.6 where this issue can be supported.

Re: USB TAP BDM has encountered a problem. Failed to resume target process. Bad arguments passed to function.

johnlwinters — Mon, 11 May 2015 19:01:48 GMT

I tried to unzip the file, but it had errors.

I suspect the directory names are too long.

Please instantiate your projects at close to root level, such as C:\w\your_proj

to minimize string lengths within the IDE. It really builds some long path names!

Re: USB TAP BDM has encountered a problem. Failed to resume target process. Bad arguments passed to function.

johnlwinters — Mon, 11 May 2015 19:04:18 GMT

It is beginning to look as though this may not be the issue.

Devices that do need refreshing at the factory must be removed from a board, cleaned up, and sent to the factory.

However, we are not at that stage.

The version of CodeWarrior 10.2 has known issues.

Re: USB TAP BDM has encountered a problem. Failed to resume target process. Bad arguments passed to function.

josephclifton — Mon, 11 May 2015 19:24:07 GMT

Upgrading to 10.6 won't "fix the eval boards". Over the weekend, I did install 10.6 and made a small barebones to try to program the "broken" boards and also see if 10.6 had any additional "tools" that might help "unlock" the boards. The boards in question won't program.

Just to be clear, we have other eval boards, exactly the same type, that program fine with 10.2. There is something in the project I sent that has a problem. Converting to 10.2 will most likely mask that.

Also, we were given special permission to put 10.2 on the labs with the "freebie" license. Can we get the same permission for 1.6?

Re: USB TAP BDM has encountered a problem. Failed to resume target process. Bad arguments passed to function.

johnlwinters — Mon, 11 May 2015 19:32:31 GMT

Yes the same free use is allowed for small projects using 10.6.

The zip file did not open for me.

Best Regards,

John L. Winters

Senior Applications Engineer

AMR/EU MCU & MPU AE Group

Freescale Inc.

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Re: USB TAP BDM has encountered a problem. Failed to resume target process. Bad arguments passed to function.

josephclifton — Mon, 11 May 2015 20:19:55 GMT

Good! We will switch to the new one next year.

What is the size of the ZIP? Maybe it got partially stripped by the emailer? The file should be 555,732 bytes.

When I look at it, everything is relative to the Lab7_old. The long names are what CodeWarrior puts into the project. The worst violators are the Eclipse .metadata .plugins

Re: USB TAP BDM has encountered a problem. Failed to resume target process. Bad arguments passed to function.

johnlwinters — Mon, 11 May 2015 20:27:07 GMT

Zip cannot handle path names beyond a certain size . I hit this problem years ago.

Best Regards,

John L. Winters

Senior Applications Engineer

AMR/EU MCU & MPU AE Group

Freescale Inc.

2100 Elliot Road

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